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...Second Test, Adelaide: England 219-8 (72 overs), trail Australia’s 1st innings’ score by 223 runs, at the dinner break....
...Tontines were largely banned in the US a century ago, hundreds of years after the Brits outlawed them....
...“This is where the matchmaking is,” says David Zalman, chief executive of Prosperity Bancshares, an acquisitive Texas-based bank that has more than doubled its assets to $21.2bn since the end of 2011....
...“Europe has a great deal of art and America has a great deal of money” Joseph Duveen (1st Baron Duveen), 1869-1939 It took Joseph Duveen and the lesser art dealers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
...“I had dinner with a collector of 1st-century Buddhist northern Chinese sculpture and his approach was as particular and as sophisticated as any collector of Renaissance bronzes who lives in Paris.”...
...$17,000,000 1st FS Corporation $16,369,000 UCBH Holdings, Inc...
...April 1st, Moody’s: Uncollectible credit-card debts rose to 8.82 percent in February, the most in the two decades that Moody’s Investors Service Inc. has kept records....
...David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, “coal king” and Liberal politician, born in Aberdare. An exemplar of the 19th-century coal and iron barons. 4....
...that the beginning of the 21st Century will be remembered as the dawn of a new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world....
...Nicholas Brealey (UK) Portfolio (US) Thomas Friedman THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century....
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